Example sentences of "[was/were] set [adv] for [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then there was a long break as the cameras were set up for the dramatic shot over Sir Rupert Cartland 's shoulder . |
| 2 | The 12 days between April 15th and April 26th were set aside for a ‘ points of light celebration of service ’ . |
| 3 | Certain lands were set aside for the upkeep of religious and charitable foundations — the vakifs . |
| 4 | In more remote areas reserves were set aside for the igi indigenous hab , inhabitants . |
| 5 | The taxi driver who left us at the station , enchanted by the idea that we were setting off for the source of the Nile , refused to accept any fare . |
| 6 | A MOTHER has condemned thieves who stole the wheels off the family car just before her cancer victim daughter was to set off for a hospital check up . |
| 7 | ‘ Zoo Check ’ was set up for a number of reasons , here are its six aims : |
| 8 | A Central Management Committee was set up for the Government legal service and , as senior Government lawyer , it fell to Ware to be chairman of this and to become head of the parallel Legal Career Service . |
| 9 | A disaster fund was set up for the widows and orphans and they were reasonably well provided for financially , although the sums they received seem very small by today 's standards of compensation and value of money . |
| 10 | The residency was set up for the Oxfordshire Area Health Authority by the City Gallery Arts Trust |
| 11 | A new Quality Performance system was set up for the person rowing the boat to give him more incentive to work harder and become a key performer . |
| 12 | We kept guard against the security forces and helped in the communal kitchen which was set up for the support committee . |
| 13 | The Bookish Portfolio , comprising shares in companies in the book business , was set up for The Bookseller in December 1981 , and liquidated last autumn . |
| 14 | It was set up for the administrative convenience of the London banks and the defendant and has been used principally in connection with the buying and selling of stocks and shares on the London market . |
| 15 | The one-year , part-time Certificate was set up for the first time in 1983. it was , and still is , aimed at developing professional competence in language teachers in adult education mainly on a pre-service and , in a more limited way , in-service basis . |
| 16 | These ceremonies set the Church 's seal on the election , symbolized that the king was God ‘ s choice as well as man 's , and that he was set apart for the work . |
| 17 | An addition to Rotterdam 's World Trade Center was built in 1986–87 and one part of it was set aside for a V.I.P. entertainment suite . |
| 18 | The 1990–91 figure of £50,000 under Continuing Education was set aside for a pupillage sinking fund . |
| 19 | A row of buses waited outside the station to take the racegoers away to a variety of outlying motels , and a long new coach with darkly tinted windows was set aside for the owners . |
| 20 | The result was that the story was set aside for the time being . |
| 21 | My hon. Friend 's second criticism of the way in which the scheme has worked is that the £24 million budget which was set aside for the two financial years — and I emphasise two years — 1989-91 was underspent . |
| 22 | Under the new schedule the period Feb. 29-March 28 was set aside for the registration of voters and a constitutional referendum would be held on March 18 ; municipal elections would follow in the first half of April and legislative elections would be held in two rounds on May 17 and May 31 . |
| 23 | Interim Flight Authority arrived on August 11 , 1992 and the 17th was set aside for the great day . |
| 24 | Another man in another village was setting off for the fields , his hoe over his shoulder . |